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The project directly addresses four sections of the 1998 English Heritage Exploring our Past Implementation plan. The two principal aims of the project are to:

• develop and support best practice in laser scanning for archaeology and architecture
• disseminate this best practice to users along with the education of likely beneficiaries

In order to achieve these aims the project works towards five objectives:

• the production of a guidance note that demonstrates the products that can be generated from laser scanning
• the update of the current Addendum to the Metric Survey Specification to take into account the continuing advances in the technology
• to increase the knowledge base of English Heritage by forming partnerships with external survey practitioners/equipment manufacturers within the UK
• to promote synthesis between disciplines within English Heritage by publishing and maintaining this project website
• to provide workshops on the use of laser scanning to educate archaeologists, architects and engineers from within English Heritage.

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Case Studies

The Heritage3D project website offers 18 case studies to highlight exemplar application of laser scanning.  This includes the use of airborne systems, ground based time of flight/phase comparison scanners and close range triangulation scanners for any aspect of cultural heritage. Case studies include:

Recording Rock Art

Medieval Graffiti

Copying Caligula

3D Non-Contact Recording

Recording Ramesses II

Recording Prehistoric Rock Art

Leasowe Man’s Skull

Going underground

Scanning Lion Salt Works, Marston

Scanning at the edge

Automatic digital reconstruction of a roof truss

Airborne lidar for ancient landscapes

Forest of Dean

Recording UNESCO World Heritage Sites at Ayuthaya and Sukhothai, Thailand

Earthwork Excavation

Scanning Gilded Surfaces